Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?

[Mister Agenda]

Lol, fair enough.  See above for my edited content.  I am curious to know why you assume there is a scale beyond the one we currently experience. 

Thank you. 

I don't know that there is, but it seems a quite reasonable possibility. 

Every species ever discovered is brilliant within it's niche, or it wouldn't be there.  But beyond it's niche, every species is largely blind, as it has no need for that information.  It's of course true that humans have a bigger niche than say, donkeys, but it doesn't automatically follow that we are therefore capable of understanding everything at some point.  It seems more reasonable to assume we are like every other species ever discovered, capable to a point, and then limited.

As example, what is our sample size?  That is, what is the relationship between what we can observe, and all that is?    Answer: Nobody has the slightest idea.

Thus, even if we were to agree that the rules of human reason are binding on all we can observe, that is essentially meaningless information in regards to the fundamental nature of all reality.

In any case, if anyone is going to propose that the rules of human reason are binding upon all of reality, the burden is on them to prove it.   The same is true of holy books of course.

Sure we don't know everything. It does not follow that some particular thing we don't know is real. Only that something that doesn't contradict what we know to be factual and doesn't have contradictory attributes is possible. I know human reason isn't necessarily binding on the whole universe, but barring Last Thursdayism or the Matrix; I think we're in a position to know some properties a proposed entity won't have; it won't be a married bachelor or have created the universe by pushing peanut butter and chocolate together.